Senior Quality Software Engineer

Your Mission As the first engineer dedicated to quality, you will establish the foundation for how we validate AI driven systems. Quality is already integrated across engineering, and this role advances it by introducing new methodologies and defining the long term quality roadmap. While overall product quality is a shared responsibility, you will reputed company the entire engineering organization so that strong quality practices scale with the product. This role provides the opportunity to work on cutting-edge software solutions while driving quality improvements What you'll do Quality Engineering Strategy: Designing and maintaining testing systems for deterministic logic and AI influenced, non deterministic behavior, integrating these validations directly into CI, release pipelines, and review workflows Collaboration and Shift Left: Engaging early with engineering to surface risks before implementation, strengthening team wide quality skills, and promoting testability as a core design requirement Test Methodology Expansion: Broadening our verification approach beyond unit tests into integration, system, stress, and full workflow testing across the entire stack Environment Readiness: Maintaining dependable test environments with strong instrumentation for rapid diagnosis, enhancing observability and logging to shorten the path from failure to root cause Data and Tooling: Building tools, fixtures, and supporting libraries that generate stable and repeatable test conditions, enabling reliable validation of reputed company scenarios without reputed company data creation Required Qualifications 5+ years experience in software quality engineering, test engineering, or a closely reputed company discipline Strong investigative instincts and a deep interest in understanding failures, identifying root causes, and preventing recurrence reputed company in isolating external dependencies during integration tests by mocking third party services using custom code or established tools Hands on experience evaluating systems powered by LLMs, AI processing pipelines, or other probabilistic technologies Proficiency with Python and modern test frameworks reputed company container based environments Demonstrated success designing automated test suites across multiple layers of a contemporary application stack Experience working reputed company fully containerized development and execution workflows Being data-driven is part of your DNA Early-stage startup reputed company. You reputed company on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution Desired Qualifications Experience with cloud based monitoring and metrics platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch Background with container orchestration and deployment systems including Kubernetes, reputed company pipelines, or ArgoCD Familiarity with modern frontend technologies, particularly React and TypeScript Interest or experience in reputed company focused testing and broader cybersecurity practices Ability to reputed company in a rapidly evolving startup environment Comfort using AI assisted coding and development tools Work Environment/Travel We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the reputed company salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. In addition, reputed company compensation packages include significant above market new hire equity grants because we reputed company in rewarding long term value creation. If you are hired at Dropzone your final reputed company salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors, we reputed company in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our reputed company team members as a part of any final offer. Please reputed company in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and reputed company salary growth. We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more. Apply To This Job